To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

Follow your instincts and do not let other people’s opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.

It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me.

You can’t live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can’t. There are too many other important people here.

I still like getting dressed up and having the opportunity to borrow beautiful dresses, but as a mother – and as somebody who’s schedule isn’t always my own – I don’t shop a lot, or...

I love Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off screen as much as on.

One of the things that’s great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

I like my money right where I can see it… hanging in my closet.

People always assume that I’m some sort of party girl, and that’s such a misconception because I like staying home.

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

It’s not like it’s hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take...

When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?

My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to...

The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!

As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody’s taken care of. I know I can’t sustain that level all the time, so I’m finding...

My mother was a master juggler. If you ask her, she’ll say she was a wreck. There’s plenty of screaming that went on in the house, but I think it was necessary just to be...

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn’t include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.

We all live in a time where we’re supposed to have choices and how do we wrangle that and how do we make the best choices for ourselves and our families. It has nothing to...